{"id":6834,"date":"2006-11-26T07:26:07","date_gmt":"2006-11-26T07:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrsokana.wordpress.com\/2006\/11\/26\/7171-for-mr-beckett\/"},"modified":"2006-11-26T07:26:07","modified_gmt":"2006-11-26T07:26:07","slug":"7171-for-mr-beckett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/2006\/11\/26\/7171-for-mr-beckett\/","title":{"rendered":"$71.71 for Mr Beckett"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mr Beckett has in my adulthood often administered the same lifting tonics, that the spontaneous receipt of a twenty pound note\u00a0from a relative of\u00a0otherwise few words once did in childhood. If you were a poor child, you’ll fathom that last bit..<\/p>\n

\u00a0Last week I invested from my very modest means the most I have ever spent on a book in his honour. $71.71. There was something very Beckettish about the price of it. Kind of check-mate ish.<\/p>\n

I genuinely admire the work of the Beckett foundation (http:\/\/www.library.rdg.ac.uk\/colls\/bif\/index.html#pubs<\/a>\u00a0who offer several unique publications) and it’s founder\u00a0James Knowlson and Elizabeth Knowlson, his partner, who have written extensively and with\u00a0extraordinary dedication for much of their lives about Beckett.<\/p>\n

For anyone who missed these radio\u00a0pieces during the centenary … Je dis (to borrow from Monsieur Jelloun) .. Merci Monsieur Beckett.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.rte.ie\/beckett100\/radioarchives.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Such is\u00a0my commitment to the French language I attempted to read Mal Vu Mal Dit en Francais and felt myself to be getting along very well with it. I was gathering a certain degree of minimalism and the moon and I thought talk of curtains. Few chapters in checked against the English to see if there really was a woman having\u00a0the conversation I thought she was\u00a0with the moon.<\/p>\n

I had not grasped a single word of it accurately. Not even a hint. Except the title and the page numbers.<\/p>\n

There’s an interesting literary experience for readers waiting inbetween translation. A whole new book arrives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 Mr Beckett has in my adulthood often administered the same lifting tonics, that the spontaneous receipt of a twenty pound note\u00a0from a relative of\u00a0otherwise few words once did in childhood. If you were a poor child, you’ll fathom that last bit.. \u00a0Last week I invested from my very modest means the most I have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beckett","category-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}